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So let’s see… risk going to prison, or take a loss on a trade-in. Let me think..which is the smarter move. Brother John!!!
Kom on now, so she furgot ta hotwire da car stead of usin da kees.
Does that sound as smart as her plan?
Sometimes you have to wonder what are people thinking of?
The old adage “Stupid is as stupid does” speaks here.
she could have just parked it on the boat ramp and let it roll, stating it was an accident. why did it take three others to help?
but as posts said earlier, nobody said that all crooks were smart.
Isn’t it great they found her car for her? Now she doesn’t have to worry about those bad nasty people depriving her of transportation.
Of course now there’s the legal fees, the prison time, the total loss on the return and whatever fines she gets slapped with. There should be a way to flag people who attempt insurance fraud so they can fit into a different class and either never be insured again or have to pay out the nose for the privilege. I know neither one of those is really viable, but I hate it when people try to defraud the system and jack prices up for the rest of us.
I am glad to see those DMV fees we are all paying in NY to fight fraud are paying off.
How many punks does it take to sink a car…
You can’t make stuff up like this. Thank You IJ.
Did these goofballs think that the rock on the gas pedal would keep the truck from floating away, sort of like the Sopranos would do with Gobba da Ghoul?
One thing the article forgot to mention was that the vehicle was found submerged – up to its windshield. Apparently The Two Smietanas didn’t realize that the lakefront was a gradual decline.
Once water hit the ignition wires, the truck stalled in three feet of water, so Darryl and his Other Brother Darryl painted the top half of the truck grey and black, and stuck some duck decoys on the roof to “hide” it. Of course they used latex paint, which washed away after the first good rainstorm one month later.
Why oh why didn’t Paula just say she was trying to see what Chevy meant by “off road driveability”? Of course, had she been driving a Jeep – known for its “Off Road Certified” marketing campaigns – she would simply have arrived in Toronto six hours later. And with a load of Lake Trout in the trunk.
One wonders if the EPA can file federal charges against the four for dumping 5 quarts of oil in an unsealed container into the lake. I don’t think they could get her for any gasoline dumping – if she was so cheap, she probably siphoned the tank before The Big Push. Maybe all the extra air in the tank impeded the car’s sinking, too. I bet these idiots even deflated the tires, thinking the Chevy would roll over on its back and float like an otter.